Four Chinese Rights Lawyers Allege Torture by Police
Summary:
- Four Chinese lawyers were held against their will as prisoners and tortured by police after protesting against the abuse of prisoners.
- The activists rallied outside of a detention centre that had been known to hold prisoners without trial, and without lawyers.
- The prisoners in this detention centre were beaten and abused, and it was finally time for someone to take a stand against all this.
- The group of lawyers had spent the day attempting to get arrest information on the prisoners, when families and friends of those imprisoned joined to speak out against this illegal detention centre.
- The lawyers spent the night back in their hotel. But the following morning, the activists were abducted by police and taken to the prison.
- There, the police beat them in an attempt to prevent them from speaking out against their crimes any further.
Connection to Human Rights:
Article 5 of the declaration of human rights has clearly been violated, as the activists were subject to violence of inhuman proportions and were tortured in an attempt to prevent the spread of this through the media. Article 9 of the declaration was also violated, in which that no one is subject to arbitrary arrest. Article 9 was violated once the police force arrested the lawyers for no reason whatsoever, and held them against their will.
Discussion Question:
Does it seem as if governments now are always attempting to cover up the bad media, and to hide the truth from the public? Is this fair?
Article 5 of the declaration of human rights has clearly been violated, as the activists were subject to violence of inhuman proportions and were tortured in an attempt to prevent the spread of this through the media. Article 9 of the declaration was also violated, in which that no one is subject to arbitrary arrest. Article 9 was violated once the police force arrested the lawyers for no reason whatsoever, and held them against their will.
Discussion Question:
Does it seem as if governments now are always attempting to cover up the bad media, and to hide the truth from the public? Is this fair?